U.S. House · Historical
Former U.S. Representatives
Individuals who have served in the United States House of Representatives and have since left office, grouped first by the state they represented and then by congressional district. The House seats 435 voting members apportioned among the fifty states by population, each elected from a single congressional district to a two-year term; the members below completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or election to higher office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former representative’s biography, the state and district they represented, their party, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, congress.gov, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, open a state to see its former delegation, or open a district to trace the lineage of members who held that seat over time. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a representative’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-representatives hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
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Tennessee delegation →- Dayton PhillipsTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1947–1951
- James QuillenTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1963–1997
- Louise ReeceTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1961–1963
- Howard BakerTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1951–1965
- Irene BakerTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1963–1965
- John DuncanTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1965–1988
- James Frazier Jr.TennesseeDistrict 3Democratic1949–1963
- LaMar BakerTennesseeDistrict 3Republican1971–1975
- Marilyn LloydTennesseeDistrict 3Democratic1975–1995
- Joseph EvinsTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1947–1977
- Clifford AllenTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1975–1979
- Joseph LoserTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1957–1963
- Richard FultonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1963–1977
- James SuttonTennesseeDistrict 6Democratic1949–1955
- Robin Beard Jr.TennesseeDistrict 6Republican1973–1983
- William AndersonTennesseeDistrict 6Democratic1965–1973
- Leonard BlantonTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1967–1973
- Dan KuykendallTennesseeDistrict 8Republican1967–1975
- Ed JonesTennesseeDistrict 8Democratic1969–1989
- Robert EverettTennesseeDistrict 8Democratic1957–1971
- George GriderTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1965–1967
- Harold FordTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1975–1997
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